Southeast Asian Rainforest
Abiotic Factors Southeast Asia is a 3,100 mile long chain of about 20,000 islands strung between Asia and Australia. It covers an area of 1,112,000 square miles, almost twice the size of Alaska. The area lies from latitude 20° north and 16° south, and longitude 95° to 105° east. The average daily temperature varies from 70°F to 90°F. Humidity is always high. The orangutan exists in only two forest Borneo and Sumatra forests and their habitat is being destroyed.
Biotic Factors
Animals: · Bengal Tiger · Common Palm Civet · Jambu Fruit Dove · Dawn Bat · Orangutans · Proboscis Monkey · Silvery Gibbon · Slender Loris · Sumatran Rhinoceros · Waglar’s Pit Viper
Plants: · Bengal Bamboo · Jambu · Kapok Tree · Strangler Figs · Tualang
Threats
Habitat loss · Uncontrolled wild fires are a big threat · Nearly 2 million hectares of land were burnt in Indonesia in 1997 · Thousands of fires occurred mainly in west and central Kalimantan and southern Sumatra. · 160 logging companies were part of the reason the wild fires started · 46 of these companies were investigated fully · Thousands of hectares were affected by the fires in Sabah and Sarawak n Malaysia.
Hunting · Orangutans are being killed for food · They are also being hunted in retaliation when they move into agricultural areas and destroy crops. · Their food is being hunted · Females are most often hunted · Because of food shortages, the species has become an easy target for hunters · are often kept as pets · there has been an increase in orangutan skulls in local towns.
Illegal Trade · An estimated 1,000 orangutans may have been imported into Taiwan for the pet trade between 1985 and 1990. · Orangutans have also been reported in Kalimantan where both live and dead orangutans are sold. · Skulls can fetch up to US$70 in towns.
Importance The importance of the rain forest is for oxygen. The rain forest is also a habitat for some organisms. Like the orangutan the dawn bat and the Bengal tiger. There is also some cures out there for cancer and medicine and if we cut the rain forest down then we will all get sick and die. This is why the rain forest is important to our community.
Conservation Plan The way we can stop or slow down the threats to the orangutans are by making a law that states that you can only cut down trees if you plant one after, to stop habitat loss, And by recycling paper for fewer trees being cut down. And for the wild fires you can put in irrigation for a hose to put out the fires. Orangutans are being killed for food and that is not right because orangutans are going extinct the way we can stop this is by making it illegal to hunt the orangutan and no more than a few of the orangutans food.
Illegal trading how we can stop this is by putting police officers and forest rangers out into the Asian rain forest to stop the illegal trading.
Southeast Asian Rainforest
Abiotic Factors
Southeast Asia is a 3,100 mile long chain of about 20,000 islands strung between Asia and Australia. It covers an area of 1,112,000 square miles, almost twice the size of Alaska. The area lies from latitude 20° north and 16° south, and longitude 95° to 105° east. The average daily temperature varies from 70°F to 90°F. Humidity is always high. The orangutan exists in only two forest Borneo and Sumatra forests and their habitat is being destroyed.
Biotic Factors
Animals:
· Bengal Tiger
· Common Palm Civet
· Jambu Fruit Dove
· Dawn Bat
· Orangutans
· Proboscis Monkey
· Silvery Gibbon
· Slender Loris
· Sumatran Rhinoceros
· Waglar’s Pit Viper
Plants:
· Bengal Bamboo
· Jambu
· Kapok Tree
· Strangler Figs
· Tualang
Threats
Habitat loss
· Uncontrolled wild fires are a big threat
· Nearly 2 million hectares of land were burnt in Indonesia in 1997
· Thousands of fires occurred mainly in west and central Kalimantan and southern Sumatra.
· 160 logging companies were part of the reason the wild fires started
· 46 of these companies were investigated fully
· Thousands of hectares were affected by the fires in Sabah and Sarawak n Malaysia.
Hunting
· Orangutans are being killed for food
· They are also being hunted in retaliation when they move into agricultural areas and destroy crops.
· Their food is being hunted
· Females are most often hunted
· Because of food shortages, the species has become an easy target for hunters
· are often kept as pets
· there has been an increase in orangutan skulls in local towns.
Illegal Trade
· An estimated 1,000 orangutans may have been imported into Taiwan for the pet trade between 1985 and 1990.
· Orangutans have also been reported in Kalimantan where both live and dead orangutans are sold.
· Skulls can fetch up to US$70 in towns.
Importance
The importance of the rain forest is for oxygen. The rain forest is also a habitat for some organisms. Like the orangutan the dawn bat and the Bengal tiger. There is also some cures out there for cancer and medicine and if we cut the rain forest down then we will all get sick and die. This is why the rain forest is important to our community.
Conservation Plan
The way we can stop or slow down the threats to the orangutans are by making a law that states that you can only cut down trees if you plant one after, to stop habitat loss, And by recycling paper for fewer trees being cut down. And for the wild fires you can put in irrigation for a hose to put out the fires.
Orangutans are being killed for food and that is not right because orangutans are going extinct the way we can stop this is by making it illegal to hunt the orangutan and no more than a few of the orangutans food.
Illegal trading how we can stop this is by putting police officers and forest rangers out into the Asian rain forest to stop the illegal trading.
Citation list
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Original image: 'Olympic National Park - Hoh Valley - Hall of Mosses Trail, Hemlocks growing on a stump'
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